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by mch82 4y ago
Study GitLab. They’ve done a great job of creating a product that enterprises buy. Their strategy has evolved over the years. Because so much of what GitLab does is public you can learn from them instead of having to relearn everything your
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How did you type the superscript footnotes? Edit: Wow, this is game changing. Markdown parsers need to implement superscript ascii character support! Lowercase ⁽ᵃ⁾ Uppercase ⁽ᴬ⁾ Numbers ⁽⁹⁹⁾
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> how do you update that you did a thing Your second question is a little vague. Can you give us an example of “a thing”?
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Solving scaling issues is solving a problem. You’ve allowed the company to increase revenue by adding users. You can brief “increased capacity by X%” as an accomplishment. You can also agree on service level metrics with your manager and th
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Notes/Highlights: “To learn is more important than to be right” Discussion on the importance of surrounding yourself with different thinkers and creating space for debate. Steve Jobs had a daily list of people across industry he’d call
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The Legacy of Steve Jobs(podcasts.apple.com)
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My comment about CA being in the middle band assumes the states were divided into 5 quantiles, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantile , and that the upper (>=1.10%) and lower (<=-0.50%) quantiles are the extreme
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This chart summarizes % change by state. CA population change is in the middle band and doesn’t seem particularly notable. https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2022/comm/perc...
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Here’s a US Census chart of population change across all 50 states (shown as percent of population). It sounds like a lot of people, but as a percentage of total population it doesn’t seem like California is particularly notable. https:&#x
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From the Overture FAQ… > “Overture is a data-centric map project, not a community of individual map editors. Therefore, Overture is intended to be complementary to OSM. We combine OSM with other sources to produce new open map data sets.
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The article didn’t answer this, but hinted at a few possibilities (I’ll be checking out the Overture Map project to see if it’s possible to confirm any of these: more corporate friendly governance, different data model, additional standards
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Great! You’ve got a lot of time to find and talk with agriculture experts. Should be a fun journey, whatever you decide to do.
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Short-term: hire someone to keep the trees alive. Longer-term: start reaching out to top agricultural programs for advice. Look for lists like this one & write to faculty: https://agronomag.com/best-schools-for-farmers-i
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Great to see this catalog! I’m extremely excited about the current wave of ZUI / infinite canvas apps & was surprised by how many apps there are. So far, my favorite infinite canvas apps have been InVision Freehand and Excalidraw.
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“Zooming User Interface” article on Wikipedia is another overview of the history behind ZUI, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
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To me, “full self driving” has always meant the car has a built-in cab driver so I can work while the car drives to my parents for dinner 6 hours away, then sleep while the car drives me home. I’m not sure how the phrase “full self-driving”
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Alternate advice: practice skills of listening, observing, empathy, dialog, sharing, building. These are the skills you will need to deal with people. People can have a difficult time talking about religion, politics, and programming langua
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Correct. It’s a new medium for a new school of artist, not a replacement for artists. Very exciting!
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“The Persuaders” by Anand Giridharadas https://thepersuadersbook.com/ How to open a door to more effective conversations with real people you care about and interact with in your communities.
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Oh, here’s a prior discussion on HN that I missed… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716429
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Tweet by Automattic CEO in response to another tweet about complexity of running a Mastadon server… > Come to @tumblr. We'll add activitypub for interconnect. Don't stress. https://twitter.com/photomatt/sta
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Tumblr to add Mastadon protocol support(mjtsai.com)
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If you feel there is a problem with unsubstantiated claims on the page, please edit the page and add “citation needed” tags to those claims. Here’s how to add them, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_nee
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> Why have we as consumers become to addicted and depended on brands? Because we are poor and got addicted to getting apps for free. We used to pay for services like email, messaging, and web hosting. Then advertising companies started g
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The “Dot-com bubble” Wikipedia article is a great starting point, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble . The “Video game crash of 1983” was a similar event that happened 30 years earlier, https://en.w
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Robotics and factories. Big tech happened because of open source and remote work (international collaboration on the internet). C, gcc, Linux, BSD, and publicly funded protocols like email and HTTP unlocked the last 20 years of growth. The
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This is not true. Why do you think this? Edit: It’s very possible I’m understanding what you’re trying to say.
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The world is run by people. Those people are no smarter than you (person reading this comment right now). I believe this personally and I’m confident Steve Jobs meant this literally. The reason I’m confident is Jobs said this in 1994, when
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Don’t worry about all the people going negative and saying AI will replace you. Those people aren’t artists. You can’t be blind to AI… it’s coming and you’d be foolish to ignore it. But, AI is like any other tool artists use. Great artists
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You are 20 and talking about a career change. You are going to do great! I learned to program in art classes at USC and UCLA. While you may go analog, it’s likely your tech & art skills will blend somewhere down the line. Check out UCL

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